Saturday, April 23, 2011

I understand now. The financial meltdown had nothing to do with toxic assets or wanton greed and mismanagement. No,it’s just some of our finer financial institutions were too focused on engineering innovative strategies for saving the planet.

Let's not engage in name calling and finger pointing, they plead. How can we all work together to make a difference? War is not the answer; but envelopes are. If John Muir were alive, he'd tell you to switch to online banking.

For years, multi-billion dollar companies have quietly gone about the business of repairing old growth forests and rescuing endangered species. Remember what we learned in the old Chevron ad? Oil companies weren’t ditching broken pipes and junk in the wilderness to save the expense of trucking it out. No, they were providing shelter for the little lost foxes. “Do people care? People do.”

Ever since, I've been ecologically aware enough to leave the broken, the collapsed, the useless, laying around my backyard. That’s not a piece of crap, that’s a habitat.

33 comments:

I saw this earlier and didn't comment, wanted someone else to start. I'm so outraged at the CORPORATIONS in general. Thank you for finding something witty (and biting) to say when all I can think to do is bite.

Until individuals stop hiding behind "corporations", nothing will change. The individual within the corporation must be accountable. If you do something you know is wrong due to "company policy", you are still at fault -- have the guts to refuse the policy or change it. If you don't know enough to recognize unethical behavior when you see it, you should not be in a position to make decisions that affect other people's lives.

I'm using "you" meaning the unethical corporate individual, not "you" as Altadena Hiker!

the new Chevron is delivered via a working Joe and a plainspoken female scientist. They're all working together to lower gas prices, save celery, bring about a reunion of the Beatles,and find the Holy Grail. Now get back work

Good fences make good (and caring) neighbors.I understand the need for corporations, I just think they've lost their way. Now it's maximizng profits by any means necessary, with no thought for the employees who actually do the work.